It feels like 1968 to me.

The Tet Offensive. George Wallace. The John Birch Society. The civil rights riots and slayings, Robert Kennedy and M L King, Black Panthers, Muhammad Ali. Richard Nixon. There is the same 'smell' in the air.

I was in my second year as a computer programmer, on an English ICT-1902 (later ICL) computer, having arrived in New Zealand in the first Australian Vietnam war draft of 1965 for twenty year olds. Perhaps I was also teaching and lecturing in Cobol, COBOL-68, about then too - shudder.

The ICT-1902 had four tape drives, 13k words of memory, paper tape and card readers, and filled a room of over 200 sq m
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Mic - Correlation does not denote causality - As usual you are making sweeping generations based on loose facts and faulty logic.

professor
"If you Remember the Sixties, you didn't really Live the Sixties." smoking

cowboy
Fifty-Five years ahead of The Curve ...

It's as if it was Written for Generation Z.

cowboy
Just goes to show, we learn nothing from history, we deserve what we get while we allow justice to be controlled by politics and politics to be controlled by religion.
Mic - "If you Remember the Sixties, you didn't really Live the Sixties."

Cheap shot, Mic - for the larger audience Mic is suggesting anyone who came out the 60s was a drugged out hippie, burned out on LSD. It is one of thousand and one false stereotypes people liars and haters propagate.
Mic - your whole agenda is one of slurs and innuendos, prettied up with movie links.

Fiddlesticks snooty

You give me too much credit blushing
I put the phrase in quotes.

It was coined in the late 70s-ish by folks nostalgic for their Counter-Culture heyday.

Much as a Generation before recalled The Roaring Twenties daydream

cowboy
Mic - "It was coined in the late 70s-ish by folks nostalgic for their Counter-Culture heyday. // Much as a Generation before recalled The Roaring Twenties "

You as usual make crass over generalizations and utilized name calling to cover up your deficiencies.

Prettying things up with something Relevant to the Blog Topic ...

sad flower

cowboy
Miclee ~hug I climbed over the nunnery wall. I'm in lockdown. Next week some more small changes but still no real socialising. Happy to be alive though, even if it's cold enough this summer to wear a coat today. cheers
Miclee ~ I wasn't ……..grin I know, I know, ……….. I am visiting ……..you know ….the usual...…
Welcome to the Hotel California.....devil


daydream "We haven't had that Spirit here since 1969."

cowboy
Oh, and people laughing about quotations from Mao's Little Red Book...
Chesney - the sixties in the US was a very turbulent time - No one likes Change and change was long overdue for the US, especially in the area of civil rights. LBJ's war on poverty entailed legislation concerning issues like civil rights, voting rights and financial inequities. The next forty years conservative diligently worked at rolling back the LBJ changes and so here we again with protesters in streets demanding change.
Riz - your point is taken -But the lady said religion OR humanism. I can't say for sure, but it sounds like she was suggesting secular humanism.
@mic yes relevant indeed

Mic - your point is taken on China - post WWII the whole world changed - but then civil war anywhere is rarely pretty, be it the US in the 1800s or Britain in the 1600s or China in the 1900s. Just to name a few.
As an economist, Mao was a total disaster. Drought Famine the killing of birds. In Australia all the news was of America and Vietnam and the cold war

True That blues

The U.S. Civil War killed more Americans t
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... than All other wars Combined.
We're it not for the losses of WWII, the numbers wouldn't even be Close.

"There is no hatred to equal that of brother for brother."

cowboy
Mic - keying errors are a pain, are they not - - that and discovering you dropped a verb only after you hit Submit. laugh laugh laugh Such errors were even worse back in sixties before text editors came along laugh They could cause a computer to crash.
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